Archers spoilers

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OK, this was posted on another site on January 1st 2014

'Based upon a letter in the DM from a reader who alleged they had overheard "an obnoxiously loud member of TA production team" in a Birmingham restaurant. Believe it at your peril.

Rob is revealed to be homophobic.
Jill will move into Brookfield.
The Grundy's to move back to Grange Farm.
Tom will take over the running of Bridge Farm after Tony has an accident.
Lower Loxley may burn down, but that has yet to be decided upon.
Lynda is to stage Blithe Spirit next Christmas.

Or not, as the case may be...'

How much more will come to pass, I wonder?

To be fair, given that it looks like current events are the beginning of the split, it's pretty inevitable that lawyers will get involved at some point.

Plus we can be pretty sure this is the one thread Olivia will never look at. Just think what we could get away with!

But it would mean Rob is still alive several months hence ...

But it does kind of rule out any Rob Must Die possibilities

We are like one mind Gruach!

Augusta

Mitmoo

Except the one in the header, which appeared laughable at the time...

Could the discussion of insurance for Lower Loxley indicate that the final prediction in the opening post to the spoilers is imminent?

Meanwhile, I think Helen may make the break next week and Pat 's confusion will stem from not knowing who to believe. I Don't think Helen would stoop as low (in her mind) as a refuge with Henry. After all, there must still be a spare room with Roy & Kirsty and space at Bridge Farm for them both. I wonder whose name the tenancy at BHC is in.

Sticker I have just come and copied that part of the opening post to ask the very same question!

A place in a refuge around here can only be accessed if you have had police / social care involvement . You cannot self refer in to one, so I don't know if that's a route they will take. In addition you go where you are sent and that can be miles from home, for safety and vacancy reasons, so that could scupper the storytelling a bit.

I think Pat's confusion will be that everything she thought she knew about Helen and Rob is wrong.

She will feel immense guilt and wonder how she could have been so duped.

I think the lawyer thing could be true - in real life - there would be custody/access stuff to sort out. Rob isn't just going to vanish - he'll try and prove Helen was/is unstable.

God, I just got the fear I'd posted on the wrong thread.

Know the feeling. I'm making sure I have my specs on now when I'm typing!

I've never thought it likely that they'd kill Rob off. They've been getting advice on the abuse storyline and I would hope that they've been pretty firmly persuaded that what is needed is one where Helen becomes empowered to escape and deal with whatever he tries to throw at her, rather than one where the entire problem is solved overnight because Rob's killed off. Plus, with him alive it leaves them with lots of potentially juicy plotllines for years to come.

Has there ever been a genuine murder? I can't remember one in the 20 odd years I've been listening.

No. The nearest TA has ever come was 50+ years ago when Tom Forrest (Phil's uncle, gamekeeper) was tried over the death of a poacher - Bob Larkin, I think, who may have been Clarrie's great-uncle. I think the charge was manslaughter. Tom had shot Bob out in the woods. He got off.

There was also the Great Borchester Mail Robbery, which Nelson Gabriel was implicated in, but I don't think anybody died - or at any rate Nelson wasn't suspected of violence.

Thanks Gasp. I'm sure Brian has been tempted to murder Kate on more than one occasion.

27 March It's all the fun of the fair, and Peggy has cause for concern....
28 March Lynda is kept in suspense, and Alan gets a shock.
29 March Bert and Rex are bonding, and Rob wants to make a special effort....
30 March Clarrie has something on her mind, and Dan's guest makes an impression....
31 March Kirsty is walking a tightrope, and Henry is in trouble.
1 April Bert is no fool, and Helen uncovers some truths.

3 April Rob asserts his viewpoint, and Helen reacts.
4 April Kirsty is called to action, and Pat is confused.
5 April Jazzer is working hard, and Helen encounters a new face.
6 April Susan stirs the pot, and Fallon has unwanted company.
7 April Christine has some words of advice, and Henry makes a new friend....
8 April There is an unexpected visitor at the village shop, and Tom wonders what might have been...

10 April Clarrie has some words of advice, and Henry is playing up.
11 April Bert is rebuilding, and Jill takes a call.
12 April Jazzer needs some help, and Kirsty tells it like it is.
13 April Adam is forging ahead, and Neil has an ultimatum for Josh.
14 April Lilian is looking glamorous, but it is Elizabeth who is turning heads....
15 April Lynda is not impressed, and Peggy spots something unusual.

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine:

Lent is over, Jolene is back on the caffeine, Shula's back on the booze and various other Ambridgers succumb to their vices. The fact that the money raised from all this denial has been stolen casts a cloud over Easter and fills Clarrie with suspicion. Elizabeth, still seen by many as the scarlet woman of Ambridge, finds herself the centre of attention, and Lynda falls into rage and despair over the pageant's promised celebrity guest. Up at Blossom Hill Cottage, nerves are on edge, while Henry's overenthusiastic Easter egg consumption sets a train of events in motion, and we must brace ourself for chilling consequences and grim truths.
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Oh lummy.

Oh gosh.

Does anyone else worry that they're going to kill off Helen?

No, oddly, that's one thing I'm completely confident they won't do, because it would go against the whole public service element of this storyline - we need Helen to survive this. Also, the Bridge Farm have already endured the sudden and violent death of a child - surely they couldn't be put through all that again?

Brace ourselves?

That does not sound good.

No, Bridge Farm can't lose another child or grandchild through death - surely? But Helen could go to prison. Temporarily. Self defence. Provocation. "While the balance of her mind ..."

Oh Lord.

And while all that is going on ... It's occurred to me that SOC might want more than one earth shattering climax to accompany his exit. Two fires so far. Small inconsequential fires. Unexplained. Prefiguring ...

How are our poor, reputedly middle aged hearts supposed to stand this torture?

I wonder if they had planned a death but the whole refuge donation thing then took legs and now they've got to be seen as Gasp0de says to do the right thing in a public service way.

A Lower Loxley fire is looking more and more likely, isn't it?

The word "chilling" is used so much that it must be a play on words.